Bedstead corner



April 20 1926.

E. ROSENBURGH BEDSTEAD CORNER Filed Deo. 31, 1919 Patented Apr. 20, 1926. Y

UNITED'STATES PATENT orties..

ERNEST L. EOSENBRGI-I, OF ROME, NEW' YORK, ASSIGNOR T0 ROME METALLIC BED- STEAD COMPANY, OF ROME, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEV YORK.

BEDSTEAD CORNER'.

Application filed. December 31, 1919. Serial No. 348,626.

T 0 all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST L. ROSEN- BURGI-i, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rome, county of Oneida, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bedstead Corners, the following being a full, clear, and exact, disclosure of the one form of my invention which I vat present deem preferable.

For a 'detailed description of the present form of my invention, reference may be had to the following specification and to the accompanying drawing, which illustrate my invention, wherein Fig. l is a side elevation of my device;A

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2, Figure l; I

Fig. 3 is a plan thereof;

Fig. et shows an alternative form thereof and I Y Fig. 5 shows the hook-plate separately.

lv/Iy invention relates toy bedsteads and particularly to a device for securing a rigid yet readily separable connection between the corner post and the side rail of a bedstead. It has heretofore been customary to provide the corner post with a pair ofv upturned hooks in which are loosely seated a pair of pins projecting from the corner of a wire mattress frame which constitutes the intermediate member that connects the head and foot. frames of the bed. Such a device does not, however, produce a rigid joint such as is demanded in the modern art. To overcome this defect, I make the side frame of angle iron and apply thereto a vertical bearing-plate preferably interlocked with the angle by being inserted in a slot therein. On this plate I place the pins which are also provided with extended flat heads or with a second bearing plate and thus form friction surfaces between which the hooks are tightly gripped with a driving and wedging fit.V The hooks are also slightly bent or the plates are slightly beveled so that the tight t may be insured and maintained in spite of such variations of dimensions as may occur in commercial manufacture of the parts. I also provide on the hook-plate a projection lip formed by stamping out the hoolfs from the body of the plate and bending up the intermediate part of the plate to form the lip. To this projecting lip a cross bar for the bed may be riveted or welded.

Referring to the drawing, A represents the corner post of a bedstead which may be of metal or of wood. In the present case it is shown as a round metal tube, although a square tube may be employed. v D is the side rail, `of angle form, which is to be rigidly of the heads or flanges c, c, I may construct the abutments ofa parallel bearing plate F1 as shown in Fig. t, the pins C, C being enclosed between the two plates F and F1. The pins are spaced apart on the plate, one above the other below the rail D. To the post A is riveted or welded the hook-plate B which has an offset base that lits against the post. The two hooks 1, Z22 are formed on the periphery edge of the plate and are pointed upward and, as shown in Fig. 5, are slightly bent laterally and outwardly at their tops. A horizontal lip E may be cut from the material of the hook plate and bent up hori- Zontally as shown in the figures. To this lip E a transverse angle bar forming the end t rail of the bed may be riveted or welded if desired.

In assembling the bed the tips of the hooks are passed into the confined space between the bearing plate F and the flanges of the pins or between the plate F and the parallel plate F1; Then by tapping on the upper edge of the bearing plate thepins will be driven down into the respective hooks against the frictional wedging resistance of the sides of the hooks against the bearing plate. Moreover the slight bend in the hooks will be straighened out within the confined space between the plates F and For plateF and the heads of studs C, as the case may be, and lthereby exert a lateral springl force tending to insure and increase the sidewise pressure grip on the hooks. The hook plate is also contained in the slot in the end of the side rail in which the bearing plate is located. Thus the side pressure is backed up by the material of the rail as well as by the heads of the pins or the parallel plate F1. I thus provide a rigid lock joint which also remains rigid and secure, however much the bedstead may be dragged about, it being remembered that a bedsteao is usually moved by pushing or pulling on the upper part of one oi the end frames in such a Way as to bringl a severe strain on the corner joint. rlie oint thus becomes loose and slack. 'I he above described joint is also readily taken apart by reversely tapping it and, in addition, it permits the reversal of the angular side rail end for end to expose either its angle side or its plain side.

l'llhat l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

i. A. bedstead corner comprising a side rail, a post p-rovided With upturned hooks projecting therefrom, said hooks having` laterally oi'lset ends, and complemental stade ior said hooks Carried by said side rail, said studs having means whereby a straightening tension is applied to the oset ends of the hooks when the latter are engaged With said studs.

2. A bedstead corner comprising a post and a side rail, a hook on the post provided vfith a laterally deHected end, and spaced apart gripping members on the rail for reeeiving the hook between them, the relative spacing of said gripping membersbeing such as to apply a straightening tension on the deflected portion of the hook.

A bedstead corner comprising a side rail having spaced apart abutments connected by studs, anda corner post provided with hooks projecting therefrom and provided With lateral oli-set portions, said hooks being positioned to engage said studs between the abutments, the relative spacing or" said abutinents being such as to apply a straightening tension to the hoolrs during such engagement.

A bedstead corner comprising a post and a side rail, a hook plate projecting from the post and provided with hooks having' laterally oil-set portions, a bearing plate on the rail extending transversely thereto, pins on the plate spaced to receive ther respective hooks, and enlargements on said pins spaced from said bearing plate, the relative spacing of said enlargements and the bearing plate being such as to t'oree the lateral otfset portions on the hooks into surface Contact 'with the bearing plate.

5. fr bedstead corner comprising a side rail heffing spaced apart abut-ments connected by studs, a corner post provided With a hook plate having lateral eti-set hooks projecting therefrom and also having a horizontal end-rail-engaging plate, said hooks being positioned to engage said studs t veen the abntments, the relative spacing of said abutments being such as to apply a straightening tension to the hooks during suoli engagement.

6. In a bedstead Corner a hook plate provided with a base and with hool members disposed at an angle to said base, said hook members having their ends laterally deflected, and an angularly disposed end-rail-engaging plate, extending laterally from the hool: plate between the hooks thereof.

Signed at Rome, Oneida County, State of New York, this 26th day of December, 1919.

ERNEST L. ROSENBURGH. 

